Yes, at MIT we mount the backup volume as "OldFiles" in the user's
homedir. Causes some confusion but far less than the load of actually
doing tape restores would be...) The actual cloning is *sometimes*
user visible in that starting certain operations will get delayed
until the cloning finishes
2000-10-13-17:42:32 Mark W. Eichin:
> Actually, systems like AFS (soon to be OpenAFS, in the next
> month or so...) *do* "perfect" backups, involving creating
> "backup volumes" (a useful thing to have around anyway,
> basically a nearly-free clone) and then the offline backups are
> made from tho
> inconsistent, right ? And we won't notice that the file being send
> is inconsistent.
rsync could stat the initial file after reading, and complain;
actually, doesn't it do something like that already, ISTR it at least
notices length changes...
> Somewhere in the '80s, standards shifted. It's
What does rsync do when copying a file that may be modified while it is
being read?
